The Euro/UN/Centric alarmist group Ice2Sea is in place to influence the UN IPCC report as the following paragraphs describe. The next IPCC "report" will likely influence 300 million hapless lives in the United States. From Ice2Sea website, page 10:

There are several areas in which ice2sea outputs may be quoted by the IPCC in Working Group I and II of the assessment: in particular, chapters 4 (Observations of the Cryosphere) and 13 (Projections of sea-level rise) in Working Group I. Eight members of ice2sea have been selected into the IPCC writing team(page 10), over four chapters. Seven of the 24 project partners are therefore represented in the AR4 report. Although this cannotguarantee uptake of ice2sea results by the IPCC, it does ensure that the IPCC has good visibility of ice2sea science....

"There's a real concern of negative impacts on prices if the issue is not properly addressed," one EU source said on condition of anonymity. "Some of the studies imply thatcarbon prices will collapse."

It is not clear, however, whether European governments will support measures that would erode carbon prices, which would put a severe dent inbudgeted governmentrevenues in 2013-2020."...

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Gordon Brown said the carbon trading market was key to London's future:

10/24/10, "'It is wholly inappropriate that the Palace should have such a direct interest in a subject like windfarms, given Prince Charles's obsessionwith renewable energy. It raises the question as to whether he is seeking to increase his own